1. renaissance
Unit 6
Chapter 15
Lesson 1

2. COMMERCE: the buying and selling of goods
1500 CE Italian city states
Italy consisted of many city states
City states became powerful through commerce
COMMERCE: the buying and selling of goods
Increased wealth means increased leisure time increased leisure time means increased interest in showing wealth through Arts & Ideas

3. Milan
Ancient
Modern

4. venice
Ancient
Modern

5. Birthplace of the Renaissance
florence
Birthplace of the Renaissance
Medici Family
The Doumo of Florence

6. renaissance Began in 1400s in Italy Required great wealth to occur
An intellectual, cultural and economic movement
Interest in Ancient Greece and Rome Ideals
ART, EDUCATION, SCIENCE & POLITICS
By 1600s spread to England, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain

7. PETRARCH Powerful influence on movement
“The style is the man”
Poet and Scholar
Powerful influence on movement
Philosophy & Literature of the past informs the present
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8. ART & THE RENAISSANCE

9. RENAISSANCE ROOTS
Movement began in Italy and spread through out Europe
Lots of ancient ruins in Italy
Increase wealth means wealthy city-states
Political Leaders, businessmen & Catholic Church commission art
New respect for human achievement & ability

10. Renaissance art Portrayed people and nature realistically
Inspired by Greek & Roman artists
Mastered perspective
Illusion that objects in paintings are closer or far away from viewer
Depth to pictures
Proportion to people, things and buildings
Famous Artists
Raphael
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci

11. raphael
Portraits of Mary
Master of perspective
Master of Architecture

12. michelangelo Painter & Sculptor Sculpted the Pieta Statue of David
Painted the Sistine Chapel frescos

13. Michelangelo’s Sistine chapel

15. Leonardo da Vinci Painter, sculptor, engineer, scientist
Painted Mona Lisa & The Last Supper
Wrote backwards in his journals
Models of airplanes & tanks
Studied states of matter
Studied anatomy

17. scientific revolution
Major Contributors
Major Contributions
Copernicus
Galileo
Gutenburg
The Earth moves around the sun
Gutenburg Bible
Watch
Microscope
Thermometer
Telescope

18. The scientific method

19. COPERNICUS University of Cracow, Poland Astronomer
Started the Scientific Revolution
HELIOCENTRIC COSMOLOGY
Sun at center of universe
Published 1543

20. GALILEO University of Pisa, Italy
Father of Modern Observational Astronomy
Improved Telescopes
Phases of Venus
Proved Copernicus’s theory
Galileo’s studies challenged teachings of Catholic Church
Inquisition in 1615
Forced to recant
House arrest for rest of life
Nicknamed “The Wrangler” because he always argued with people
Motion of pendulums
Physics of motion

21. JOHANNES GUTENBERG Invented MOVABLE TYPE printing press
1455 GUTENBERG BIBLE
Books affordable to Middle Class
Book trade flourished

22. Add PICS Other inventions Pocket watch 1510’s Compound microscope 1590
Air thermometer 1592
Optical Telescope 1608
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23. PROTESTANT REformation
Protestant – PROTEST Reformation – REFORM
Many scholars began to question the practices and corruption of the Catholic Church – particularly indulgences
Martin Luther
John Calvin
John Knox
Protestantism – movement whose supporters protested against the Catholic Church
Resulted in split of western Christianity into Catholics and Protestants

24. Indulgences – pardoning of punishment for sin
Originally only gained through works of charity, pilgrimage
Beginning in Renaissance wealthy individuals paid for indulgences
Given to crusaders

25. Martin Luther Catholic Monk & Priest
Believed Christians should be judged on Faith in Jesus Christ and not in good works done
Good works done for sake of good works
October 31,1517 CE sent 95 Theses to Bishop
Was meant to be criticism not a revolution
95 reforms needed in the Catholic Church
No indulgences
Individual interpretation of the Bible
Refused to recant
Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther

26. Counter-reformation Catholic response to Protestant Reformation
Council of Trent CE
Only Catholic Church interpret Bible
Pope highest Authority
Ban on sale of indulgences